Vainilla, Bronce y Morir
Fiction | Mexico | 1957 | 109 min | Spanish
Synopsis
Set in the 1950s Vanilla, Bronce y Morir focuses, through a romantic perspective, on the differences between the upper and lower classes in Mexico City at the time. Laura (Elsa Aguirre) is a rich and prestigious heiress who falls in love with Ricardo (Ignacio López Tarso), a poor but honest sculptor. Happiness seems to have found its place, but Laura's father soon interrupts it by forcing her to marry Enrique, an engineer as vain and pretentious as he is rich, whom Laura does not love.
Director
Director, writer and Mexican actor born in 1920 and originally from Nuevo León. He directed 70 films and was nominated for the Ariel four times. Best known for the films La Culta Dama (1957), Los Tres García (1947) and El Hambre Nuestra de Cada Día (1959).
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